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Real Teenagers, Fake Nudes: The Rise of Deepfakes in American Schools

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains strong language, descriptions of explicit content and sexual harassment A disturbing new problem is sweeping American schools: Students are using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of their classmates and then share them without the person depicted even knowing. Natasha Singer, who covers technology, business and society for The Times, discusses the rise of deepfake nudes and one girl's fight to stop them. Guest: Natasha Singer, a reporter covering technology, business and society for The New York Times.

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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernysee, and this is the Daily.

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A disturbing new problem is sweeping American schools.

0:17.0

Students are using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of their classmates and then share them without

0:26.2

them even knowing.

0:30.2

Today, my colleague Natasha Singer, on the rise of deep fake nudes,

0:36.2

and one girls fight to stop them. It's Friday, June 7th.

0:47.0

It's Friday, June 7th. So Natasha for the past year you've been reporting on artificial intelligence in

1:00.9

American schools.

1:02.8

And your most recent reporting has uncovered a pretty new and very disturbing trend involving

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AI.

1:11.4

Tell me what you've been finding.

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It's been a really striking year on my beat

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because we're seeing kind of a rapidly spreading

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new form of peer sexual exploitation

1:22.4

and harassment in schools, which is called deep fake

1:25.2

nudes.

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And what that means is that we're seeing middle and high school boys across the United States

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using these widely available

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notification apps to allow people to surreptitiously take

1:39.6

clothed photos of girls and women and without their knowledge or consent use these

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apps to remove their clothes and so it looks like a simulated nude of a ninth

1:52.4

grader who you who has posed for a photo.

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